[dovecot] Re: Failure in the presence of too many connections

[Mark E. Mallett]

> >  Raising the openfiles limit
> > certainly pushes off the problem, and maybe that's a good enough
> > workaround (as long as there's always a higher limit availble...)
> 
> How much was it before? Dovecot limits the number of login processes to
> 384 by default (max_logging_users 256 + login_max_processes_count 128).

openfiles limit was 64 when the issue occured.  I then raised it to
some much larger value.